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"Our pulpits should not be dedicated to campaign speeches, but instead to proclaiming that the Kingdom of God is both at hand through the work of the Holy Spirit in God’s people and that it will arrive fully realized at the return of Jesus."

"Memory practices, even rote memory practices and acts of repetition, can strengthen memory as such; this, in turn, shapes the kind of attention and presence we bring to bear on what we’re trying to understand."

"The summer of 2020 and the siege of the Capitol imbued all factions of American society with antipathy and certitude, a perilous combination that continues to touch virtually every aspect of our public lives, and much of our private ones also."

"COVID left many Gen-Zers feeling that the gods of our contemporary secular culture failed them."

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"What if, sometimes, there are ways to generalize from one phenomenon to another without finding any simple 'law' to intermediate between the two?"

"If Christianity weren’t true (or we didn’t, at minimum, truly believe it to be true), ought we to affirm Christianity as a necessary noble lie for a more orderly, or just, or optimistic society?"

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Here’s everything I curated or created online last week:

"Education should be about the formation of humans, about flourishing, and in order to achieve that in a diverse country like Canada, that means having educational options for families."

"Instead of killing the prospect of a deal, the Israeli attack prompted Trump and his team to ratchet up pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring the war to an end."

"O for that flame of living fire, which shone so bright in saints of old; which bade their souls to heav'n aspire, calm in distress, in danger bold."

"Oh, you'll never find the water when you're digging in so many shallow wells No, I never found the water when I was digging in so many shallow wells"

"Dr. Joshua Berman joins Dru Johnson to reveal how literary design, verbal repetition, and cultural continuity make the Bible not a patchwork, but a carefully composed unity."

"Taylor’s affinity with Romanticism and its afterlife repeatedly leads him to present the poetic and the philosophical not as two essentially distinct cultural enterprises, but as two aspects of a single project of reconnection."

"The Internet, too, offered enchantment. Presence without proximity. Transformation without consequence. Pleasure without limit. But enchantment, eventually, turns to disenchantment."

"The Psalms warn against idols that 'have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,' but the future we are headed toward looks more like that in Revelation, where 'the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.'"

"The LERB issued its decision the same day Warren Driechel was appointed Edmonton’s chief of police. Driechel admitted to buying steroids from French, who pleaded guilty to two trafficking offences after resigning from EPS."

"How many more opportunities will we get to unify around a message that says political violence, even in private messages, is a taboo so off-limits that it means you can’t run for office? Probably not many."

"This is one of the better definitions of Christian nationalism: that we want the 'water' [the background to our beliefs or arena in which agents operate] to be more explicitly Christian."